Monday, May 28, 2012

Victoria and Chuncho

Two new additions have joined the Moog household.

First, I'd like to introduce you to my beautiful new friend Victoria, who came to me from another Ravelry user, who sadly found her treadles to be too gentle for her poorly legs and decided to rehome her.

Here she is - Victoria Moog.

Isn't she a pretty girl? She's tiny, sweet and quick and takes a bit of keeping up with and so far this is nearly all we've had time for...

This is Shetland Moorit wool - very soft and lovely to spin. I've acquired a little stash of undyed fibres to practice on as they were so much cheaper than the pretty dyed ones and as a beginner I can whizz through that stuff at quite a rate without necessarily getting usable yarn as a result!

Off the needles today and they only took three months and one week to knit!

That's not strictly true as I wasn't actually knitting them for three months and one week. I cast on and knit the cuff on sock 1 then distracted myself from the scary colourwork by casting on something new. Then I came back to Chuncho and got past the heel on sock 1 before I got distracted again. With sock 1 finished (after over two and a half months) I got cracking on sock 2 for a couple of days and was really making progress before I ignored them in favour of playing with my new friend (see above) - I was also trying to ignore the fact that I was scared of doing that chequerboard heel again. This weekend I decided enough was enough so I put my big girl panties on and made myself knit and knit and knit until they were done. Finished. Complete. Not sure if I dare wear them after all that work - might frame them instead.

I have decided that if I do wear them it'll be in a very British way indeed, with open toed sandals - flashing my Chunchos for all the world to see!

Moogs xxx

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If that fails I have to do something very scary by backing up my blog (somehow) then setting the whole thing up again from scratch - gulp!

I can see your blog for once - and I can leave a comment too! Victoria Moog looks lovely and scary and your Chunchos look incredibly scary but lovely too! Must remind myself how to knit - I seem to have forgotten that skill lately! Locket xx

Ohh both are very nice. Love the pattern on the socks. You were very brave - I haven't ventured down the pattern road yet and am not sure I want to....vbg. The spinning wheel is amazing. From what the ladies in my spinning group tell me double treadle wheels are the way to go. Can't wait to see what you produce on it.

I would not be wearing those socks ever !!! I'd be framing them and hanging them in a gallery for people to pay you squillions of dollars to look at them.It baffles me completely that you could knit all those teensy little pictures.Are you sure it wasn't magic?

Hi, I'm Lesley aka Moogsmum. After years of dreaming about it I've finally set up my own business making and selling my handmade bags, brooches, pictures and accessories. I love to sew, knit, crochet, spin and weave. Married to Mr Moog with two lovely teenagers and two wonderful dogs - Merlin Moog, the world's cuddliest border collie, and naughty collie x spaniel Willow Wobbler.
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